Laravel Status Quode Quiz

Laravel has a set of conventions and patterns, sometimes invisible, that guide how you’re meant to write code, what’s commonly known as “the Laravel way.” Most of these aren’t enforced through strict rules; they live in the default behavior of the framework itself, acting as natural guides for anyone picking it up.

I call this implicit layer The Status Quode: the unwritten rules, naming patterns, and structural defaults that make a codebase feel predictable. Laravel manifests its Status Quode through its documentation (which consistently models certain patterns), its make: commands stubs (which generate convention-following boilerplate), its default “guess” behavior (where table names, foreign keys, and relationships are inferred without configuration), and tools like Laravel Pint (which bakes style decisions into a formatter).

The Quiz

How well do you actually know Laravel’s Status Quode? Below is a quiz with 13 questions across different categories testing your knowledge of these conventions and defaults. Pick an answer—it locks immediately, and you’ll see the explanation behind it.

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HTTP 1 / 13

How do you name the route for POST /photos?

HTTP 2 / 13

How do you name a middleware that denies access if the user's email is not verified?

Tests 3 / 13

How should test methods be named?

Tests 4 / 13

Where does this test live?

// A test that stores a photo:
$user = User::factory()->create();

$this->actingAs($user)
     ->post('/photos', [
         'title' => 'Sunset',
         'url'   => 'https://example.com/sunset.jpg',
     ])
     ->assertRedirect('/photos');

$this->assertDatabaseHas('photos', ['title' => 'Sunset']);

Models 5 / 13

What is the pivot table name for a many-to-many between User and Role?

Databases 6 / 13

An Article is written by a User.

`users`	`articles`
id, name	id, title, content

What do you name the foreign key on articles?

Databases 7 / 13

What do you name the migration for this operation?

Schema::table('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->string('avatar')->nullable()->after('password');
});

Databases 8 / 13

What is the expected table name for a BlogPost model?

Events 9 / 13

What is the class name for an event fired when an order is shipped?

Artisan Commands 10 / 13

How do you name an Artisan command that sends invoices to customers?

Architecture 11 / 13

Where do you place a trait that adds HasTimestamps behaviour to multiple Eloquent models?

Architecture 12 / 13

Your application needs to create an Order. Where does that logic live?

Facades 13 / 13

How do you access the cache in a Laravel controller or service class?

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